July 3, 2026 | View in Browser
This week’s highlights:
- The Afghanistan Reckoning by Carter Malkasian
- The Broken Nuclear Umbrella by Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press
- Worse Than an Axis by Thomas Wright
- The End of Hamas by Jaser AbuMousa
- Podcast: Sebastian Mallaby explains how AI will reshape U.S. politics, economics, and national security
- Who Is China? by Ian Johnson
- How to Save the U.S.-Israeli Alliance by Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov
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The Afghanistan Reckoning
Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting
By Carter Malkasian
The Broken Nuclear Umbrella
What Comes After Extended Deterrence
By Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press
Worse Than an Axis
Why the Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries Is So Dangerous
By Thomas Wright
The End of Hamas
And the Convenient Fiction of Continued Menace
By Jaser AbuMousa
New Podcast Episode
The AI Race Nobody Can Win
A Conversation With Sebastian Mallaby
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Who Is China?
Beijing’s Self-Inflicted Identity Crisis
By Ian Johnson
